Adarsh Makdani

Journal collected $400,000 from papers it later retracted A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculation…

A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculations.

08.05.2025 01:37 — 👍 72    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 5

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

08.05.2025 00:35 — 👍 11551    🔁 3654    💬 113    📌 138

I urge colleagues with relevant expertise to co-sign this letter against the narrow interpretation of biology which seeks to exclude trans, NB, intersex, & gender non-conforming people from policy.

#BNA2025 showed that Neuroscience is a diverse & inclusive field that understands biology is complex.

03.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

28.04.2025 10:09 — 👍 5073    🔁 1946    💬 72    📌 100

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.

01.05.2025 12:17 — 👍 12371    🔁 4597    💬 542    📌 497

Likewise - if you are recruiting for PhD students or postdocs at #BNA2025, tag us so we can spread the word.

27.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Liverpool(ish) presenters - PIs and ECRs - don't forget to tag us @lng.org.uk when skeeting about your symposia & posters at #BNA2025.

27.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Liverpool John Moores University at Stand 44 - advertising the Neuroscience and Psychology teaching & research

University of Liverpool's Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Centre at Stand 45

The Walton Centre - The UK's only specialist hospital for neurology, neurosurgery, pain and rehabilitation services - Stand 54

The BNA community partners - Liverpool Neuroscience Group, Liverpool John Moores University, and The Walton Centre.

We're glad to see so many @lng.org.uk partners at #BNA2025 - come visit the stands for @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @liverpooluni.bsky.social, @thewaltoncentre.bsky.social, and BYOB Liverpool stand where we'll be hosting @thebraincharity.bsky.social and @painreliefteam.bsky.social

27.04.2025 17:09 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I spot the corner of my head at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social stand in picture 4! You got my best angle 😄

(It's right beside the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social stand).

28.04.2025 06:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Off to the 8.30am plenary at #BNA2025 in Liverpool.

My biennial attempt at keeping up with the wider world of Neuroscience outside @lng.org.uk

Grateful to @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Psychology for supporting my attendance & many of our PGRs too.

Only problem: I've already seen a 3 o'clock today...

28.04.2025 06:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BYOB banner image featuring Brain and light bulb logo, and LNG logo. More details on website.

Hi #Liverpool! As @britishneuro.bsky.social is coming to town - we've organised a number of (mostly) free, neuroscience-themed public events taking place in and around Liverpool over the next few days & weeks.

Check out the programme: meetings.bna.org.uk/BYOBLiverpool/

02.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Move Your Body, Boost Your Brain (BYOB Liverpool) Move Your Body, Boost Your Brain: Dance Movement Therapy for Healthy Ageing On Thursday 10th April 2025 | 12:00PM StartVenue: The Liverpool Lighthouse   Free to attend, but booking is essential. Suita...

Also Thursday 10th April, at Liverpool Lighthouse, #Anfield, 12-4pm, "Move Your Body, Boost Your Brain: #Dance Movement Therapy for Healthy Ageing" -- live interactive demos, expert talks showing how movement-based interactions can promote joy and vitality.

Book (free): lng.org.uk/byob-nmdt

02.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Neuronights flyer, featuring event logo and details of the 2 events on 10th & 24th April - more information available on the website. Design features brains and disco motifs.

Next Thursday, 10th April at LEAF Bold Stret, 7-10pm, join us for the 1st night of our Neuroscience and comedy mash-up. Tickets are just £5.25, with all proceeds going to @thebraincharity.bsky.social and @painreliefteam.bsky.social

Book tickets: lng.org.uk/neuronights

02.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

In Touch With Your Body flyer featuring partner logos, and event details for the event at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot on Thursday 3rd April. More details on website.

This Thursday, 3rd April, 4-6pm join us at Shakespeare North Playhouse, #Prescot for "In Touch With Your Body" - learn about the science behind Touch & Pain - including interactive demonstrations of techniques & equipment used in labs. (Tea & coffee provided).

Book via lng.org.uk/byob-touch (free)

02.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Be part of @britishneuro.bsky.social Festival of Neuroscience this April in Liverpool!
Call for speakers/performers for "NeuroNights"! 🪩🧠
If you love #scicomm & want to try something a little different then this is for you!
🗓️ Deadline: 17th Feb
📩 Apply here: lng.org.uk/neuronights-...

12.02.2025 09:54 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

NeuroNights Application – Liverpool Neuroscience Group Are you a scientist, researcher, or science communicator with a flair for fun and engagement? NeuroNights is calling for speakers to join our two exciting, public-facing events in Liverpool! This is y...

Come and bring #neuroscience to life with us through:
 
😂 Myth-Busting Comedy: We’re looking for 10-minute neuro-themed comedy sets
 
🧠 Battle of the Brains: Take part in a short debate on hot neuroscience topics
 
Anyone is welcome to apply and we will help you to develop your talk 🪩🧠🕺

12.02.2025 11:53 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Have just implemented it for @lng.org.uk - but notice we're still in the minority. Although maybe it's because not many organisations let their social media manager have access to edit DNS records...

13.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bsky.app's "domain as @ handle" feature is excellent, and relatively easy to implement... but I think my enthusiasm for it also reveals the narrow window in which I grew up where internet domain names were actually important.

But, if anyone wants to appeal to people users of a certain age...

13.02.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Career Development Research Fellowships 2025 Career Development Research Fellowships for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctorate (and will ...

Are you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! #psychscisky #neuroskyence www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

20.09.2024 13:07 — 👍 28    🔁 54    💬 2    📌 1

Introducing the Missing Majority dashboard, an automatically updating resource that tracks the global representation of behavioral science first authors over time.

remi-theriault.com/dashboards/m...

Wanna know how your favorite journal performs? Check it out 😁

Let us know what you think!

05.08.2024 12:01 — 👍 31    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 4

Maybe, just maybe, we need to accelerate neither the adoption of AI for scientific discovery nor science itself. Maybe what science actually needs is to slow down to breathe more oxygen instead of hyperventilating itself into asphyxiation. Or AI can get us there more quickly of course.

24.08.2024 00:59 — 👍 68    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 1

An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...

In our new issue: Laura Preston attends an AI conference as its honorary contrarian speaker.

18.04.2024 02:13 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

As a somatosensory neuroscientist & microneurographer I understand the mechanisms & yet I remain completely baffled by the amount of *attention* the movement of a single arm hair in the wind can demand.

Why is it so important for me to know it is moving? Why does my brain want me to care so much?

24.08.2024 17:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That would be pretty much all of my students who study full time AND hold down jobs that require at least 20 hours per week. And there are those who study, have jobs, and have caring responsibilities. But yes Isabel, the problem is that young people are "selfish and idle".

20.08.2024 10:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0